Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some will be tempted by well-known names like "21" (52nd St. between Fifth Ave. and Avenue of the Americas), where the captain may greet all but nationally known politicians with a fastidious shudder and escort them to Transalpine Gaul. The food is expensive and sometimes worth it. Yet another costly place, Lafayette, is notoriously snotty. In the same see-and-be-seen class, La Grenouille and La Côte Basque offer wonderful food-it is all terrifically expensive-but without the same hauteur. Elaine's (Second Ave. at 88th St.), an Upper East Side Italian restaurant...
...forming Eastbound wagon trains. They are set to arrive in Valley Forge, Pa., July 3. The following day, President Ford will address the passengers in the 60 official wagons and approximately 2,000 other travelers. The Pennsylvania Bicentennial Commission sponsored an official wagon from each state, plus ten escort wagons. Wagon trains originating in Elaine, Wash., Pomona, Calif., Houston, Fort Mandan, N. Dak., Atlanta and Augusta, Me., are bound for Valley Forge fueled by horse and mule power, as well as a resurgent pioneer fever. TIME Correspondent Madeleine Nash caught up with a contingent of wagons at Tecumseh, Mich...
...Americans safely out of Lebanon. It also carried the flag-draped aluminum coffins of Meloy and Waring. They had been seen off by a U.S. embassy Marine Honor Guard−in dress blues−and British embassy officials. Though the British column, at first with P.L.O., then Syrian troop escort, was briefly caught in crossfire, it reached Damascus safely...
...manuscript and broke the story last week, Schiff denied through her lawyer, Morris Abram, that she had ever had "a romance or an affair" with Roosevelt. But Potter-a fiftyish author of a children's book and a 1973 volume on oil spills, as well as a sometime escort of SchifFs-says that her remarks came from long taped conversations he held with her over the past two years. Publisher John J. Geoghegan reports that Schiff has twice read the galieys of Potter's manuscript and changed nothing...
Died. Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll, 92, commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet during World War II from 1942-44; in Bethesda, Md. A spare, taciturn man, Ingersoll directed the fight against German U-boats and oversaw the escort of U.S. troops and supplies crossing the battle-soaked Atlantic. Later, as commander of the Western Sea Frontier, he poured men and materiel into the fight against Japan...